Creating a blog and a mailing list of those who’ve expressed an interest in my work gives me a chance to begin communicating some of my thoughts and writings to people I consider friends. These blog entries will be from both present writing and from the recent past, when I have been writing mostly short essays, stories and poetry.

Just as my nine books offer no consistency of style or subject, so too my blog entries will vary greatly in tone, subject, and style. There will be political satire, playful zen thoughts, poetry, short stories, parables, deep philosophical musings (let’s hope these are kept to a minimum), and some brief autobiographical sketches. Just as with the weather in some places, if you don’t like what you’re experiencing now with the blog, just wait a while–a different wind will be blowing quite soon.

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An interviewer once asked me to write “a list of your favorite books that have had an influence on your beliefs.” Oh, good, I thought: I’ll list my favorite books from over the years. But no, wait a minute, he’s asking for favorite books that had an influence on… Continue reading

INVASION is Luke Rhinehart’s most original, entertaining and controversial novel since THE DICE MAN. A very funny Sci-Fi adventure story, a fierce political satire, a challenging look at how our civilization looks to aliens from another universe: this book is unique. To be published by Titan in September 2016. Super-intelligent… Continue reading

One trouble with wives is that they have ideas of their own. My wife Ann has insisted for fifty years on having ideas of her own. So inconvenient. One idea she pushed for the last fifteen years is that I write an autobiography. Fortunately, I have ideas of my… Continue reading

One of the basic proverbs of THE DICE MAN, one that offends many people, is “This Truth above all: fake it.” Yet, used appropriately, pretending, faking it, lying, dishonesty: all of these have value. I was reminded of this when my friends Kathy Zant and Mark Ryan introduced me… Continue reading